Gail Russell

                                                                       Gail Russell
Artwork of the week time, a pencil sketch this week, again by my father, this one would have been done in the 1940's when dad was in his early twenties.
Gail Russell had a turbulent and tragic life, it seems (click the link below the pic for more information) and died very young due in part to alcohol addiction.
I have posted this picture simply because I think it's a wonderful piece of art, despite the decay to the paper of nearly seventy years hidden in a folder

Apple maps couldn't find this place, can you?!

                                       Somewhere in Suffolk painted by Geoff Thirlby
Second 'painting of the week' by my dad, this one was painted after he retired, we know it's somewhere in Suffolk, but we don't know exactly where.
If anyone recognises it, I'd love to know where it is.
If you click the link under the painting, you can see a few more of his pictures at my cafe press site.

Dad's artwork

some of my father's artwork

My father was always very self deprecating about his artwork, I always thought it was rather sad that he often seemed quicker to point out what he perceived to be faults with his work than take pleasure from the beautiful images he created.

Having said that, I know that it made him very happy that we all loved his art.
The painting above is among the last of the pieces he created, in fact, he never got around to finishing it, but I think it stands as a beautiful piece in it's unfinished form.

I wanted to share some of his art with anyone that would get pleasure in seeing it, but rather than overloading my blog with lots of images at once, I will ad a 'painting of the week' over the next month or so.

If anyone is impatient to see more, or would like to have a print etc of any of the images I post, clicking the link will take you to my website, Dad's pictures are in 'Geoff's gallery' in the artwork section.

This design has been very popular already, Dad would have been amazed that other people would want to own things with his artwork on them, I'm not surprised by that at all